Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,256 5,896 7,271
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.99% 23.33% 19.50%
As % of the General category 34.59% 36.29% 34.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,265 3,956 5,068
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% -1.67%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 104 237
10th Percentile £15.77 £17.79 £12.94
25th Percentile £19.03 £23.89 £15.22
Median hourly rate £35.00 £39.06 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +39.48% -7.83%
75th Percentile £56.75 £65.00 £38.12
90th Percentile £88.00 £77.13 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year -2.78% +28.57% -8.96%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 23,870 16,248 21,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.91% 64.30% 57.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,487 10,447 13,653
10th Percentile £313 £284 £290
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £517 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.33% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,703 793 1,792
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.27 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.64 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +17.58% -15.98% +9.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £52.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.01 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £31.80
% change year-on-year +16.36% -13.52% +5.12%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 27 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 27 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 27 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 4,961 £575 -4.17% 1,949
North of England +2 1,278 £500 +7.53% 614
South East -1 693 £500 -4.76% 898
North West +4 672 £471 +4.61% 323
Midlands 0 649 £500 +11.11% 365
Yorkshire 0 561 £525 +8.19% 217
West Midlands +1 478 £500 +0.81% 226
South West -3 376 £525 - 262
East of England +2 193 £516 -10.22% 216
East Midlands 0 164 £475 +13.77% 138
North East -18 46 £500 +13.96% 85
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 290 (3.51%) Confluence
2 207 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 83 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 66 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 48 (0.58%) Apache
6 44 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 27 (0.33%) SAS
8 26 (0.31%) CMS
9 22 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (0.18%) CICS
11 13 (0.16%) IIS
12 12 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 11 (0.13%) Camunda
13 11 (0.13%) Ethereum
13 11 (0.13%) Jupyter
14 10 (0.12%) Appian
15 6 (0.073%) Hyperledger
16 5 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 5 (0.061%) WebLogic
17 4 (0.048%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 451 (5.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 180 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
3 156 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 141 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
5 100 (1.21%) MS Visio
6 57 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
7 36 (0.44%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.061%) Sketch
9 4 (0.048%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.048%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.048%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.048%) Trello
10 3 (0.036%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.036%) Notion
11 2 (0.024%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.024%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.024%) Final Cut Pro
11 2 (0.024%) InVision
12 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.012%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 300 (3.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 108 (1.31%) NetSuite
3 96 (1.16%) Oracle Payables
4 81 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
5 75 (0.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 72 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
7 43 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
8 41 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
9 40 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
10 38 (0.46%) Aladdin
11 35 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
12 33 (0.40%) SAP FI
13 27 (0.33%) SAP CO
14 25 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
15 24 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
16 23 (0.28%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
16 23 (0.28%) SAP BRIM
16 23 (0.28%) SAP ERP
17 22 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
17 22 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,330 (16.11%) Azure
2 956 (11.58%) AWS
3 560 (6.78%) Power Platform
4 424 (5.14%) GCP
5 284 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
6 281 (3.40%) SaaS
7 255 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
8 214 (2.59%) GitHub
9 184 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
10 172 (2.08%) Snowflake
11 163 (1.97%) Entra ID
12 136 (1.65%) Serverless
13 111 (1.34%) Amazon S3
14 99 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
14 99 (1.20%) Power Automate
15 91 (1.10%) dbt
15 91 (1.10%) OCI
16 84 (1.02%) Microsoft Copilot
17 80 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
18 78 (0.94%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 151 (1.83%) Firewall
2 131 (1.59%) Network Security
3 70 (0.85%) DNS
3 70 (0.85%) VPN
4 57 (0.69%) TCP/IP
5 55 (0.67%) WAN
6 40 (0.48%) BGP
7 32 (0.39%) HTTP
7 32 (0.39%) LAN
8 31 (0.38%) SSL
9 29 (0.35%) DHCP
10 28 (0.34%) OSPF
11 26 (0.31%) Multicast
12 23 (0.28%) MPLS
13 21 (0.25%) Cisco ASA
13 21 (0.25%) Internet
13 21 (0.25%) SD-WAN
14 19 (0.23%) VSAN
15 17 (0.21%) VLAN
16 16 (0.19%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 483 (5.85%) Power BI
2 239 (2.89%) SQL Server
3 224 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
4 166 (2.01%) Metadata
5 163 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
6 147 (1.78%) Relational Database
7 125 (1.51%) Tableau
8 122 (1.48%) Data Lake
9 86 (1.04%) NoSQL
10 71 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
11 68 (0.82%) Big Data
12 63 (0.76%) Oracle Database
13 60 (0.73%) BigQuery
14 49 (0.59%) MongoDB
15 47 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
16 46 (0.56%) Power Query
16 46 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 45 (0.55%) Delta Lake
18 39 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
18 39 (0.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 599 (7.26%) JIRA
2 209 (2.53%) Git
3 155 (1.88%) Jenkins
4 90 (1.09%) GitLab
5 54 (0.65%) JUnit
6 45 (0.55%) Cucumber
7 39 (0.47%) Selenium
8 28 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 27 (0.33%) Postman
10 25 (0.30%) Visual Studio
11 24 (0.29%) MLflow
12 23 (0.28%) REST Assured
12 23 (0.28%) SonarQube
13 22 (0.27%) ERwin
14 19 (0.23%) Maven
15 17 (0.21%) TeamCity
16 16 (0.19%) Zephyr
17 15 (0.18%) Bitbucket
17 15 (0.18%) Hudson
18 14 (0.17%) Gradle
General
1 2,408 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 1,561 (18.91%) Banking
3 1,099 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
4 461 (5.58%) Public Sector
5 376 (4.55%) Legal
6 335 (4.06%) Financial Institution
7 321 (3.89%) Investment Banking
8 313 (3.79%) Front Office
9 278 (3.37%) Retail
10 272 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
11 206 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
12 194 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
13 162 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 147 (1.78%) Local Government
15 142 (1.72%) Manufacturing
16 133 (1.61%) General Ledger
17 129 (1.56%) Billing
18 125 (1.51%) Law
19 121 (1.47%) Marketing
20 117 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,197 (14.50%) Analyst
2 926 (11.22%) Senior
3 883 (10.70%) Lead
4 833 (10.09%) Developer
5 793 (9.61%) Architect
6 621 (7.52%) Project Manager
7 600 (7.27%) Business Analyst
8 537 (6.50%) Consultant
9 310 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
10 288 (3.49%) Data Engineer
11 210 (2.54%) Senior Manager
12 191 (2.31%) Financial Analyst
13 174 (2.11%) Data Analyst
14 170 (2.06%) Accountant
15 166 (2.01%) Java Developer
16 163 (1.97%) Finance Manager
16 163 (1.97%) Software Engineer
17 161 (1.95%) Programme Manager
18 158 (1.91%) IT Manager
19 153 (1.85%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (3.06%) .NET
1 253 (3.06%) REST
2 245 (2.97%) React
3 232 (2.81%) Kafka
4 186 (2.25%) Oracle Fusion
5 174 (2.11%) Middleware
6 152 (1.84%) Spring
7 146 (1.77%) Spring Boot
8 116 (1.41%) RESTful
9 110 (1.33%) Redux
10 104 (1.26%) PySpark
11 103 (1.25%) Node.js
12 84 (1.02%) AngularJS
13 80 (0.97%) JSON
14 73 (0.88%) OAuth
15 69 (0.84%) XML
16 60 (0.73%) CSS
17 59 (0.71%) Pandas
18 56 (0.68%) GraphQL
19 55 (0.67%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 388 (4.70%) Onboarding
2 358 (4.34%) Product Ownership
3 350 (4.24%) Cloud Native
4 228 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
5 205 (2.48%) Management Information System
6 184 (2.23%) Data Structures
7 161 (1.95%) Fixed Income
8 159 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 150 (1.82%) Derivative
10 149 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
11 140 (1.70%) Data Centre
12 138 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
13 121 (1.47%) Virtual Team
14 118 (1.43%) Equities
15 107 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
16 105 (1.27%) AI Agents
17 100 (1.21%) Public Cloud
18 95 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
19 90 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
20 85 (1.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 287 (3.48%) Windows
2 256 (3.10%) Linux
3 136 (1.65%) Unix
4 62 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 37 (0.45%) Solaris
6 35 (0.42%) Windows 10
7 34 (0.41%) Apple iOS
8 31 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 29 (0.35%) Android
10 28 (0.34%) zOS
11 20 (0.24%) Mac OS
12 17 (0.21%) AIX
13 7 (0.085%) Oracle Linux
13 7 (0.085%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.085%) VMS
14 5 (0.061%) HPUX
14 5 (0.061%) SUSE
14 5 (0.061%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.048%) MVS
16 3 (0.036%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,782 (21.58%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,705 (20.65%) Agile
3 1,160 (14.05%) Migration
4 1,075 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
5 969 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 904 (10.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 897 (10.86%) DevOps
8 888 (10.76%) AI
9 873 (10.57%) CI/CD
10 833 (10.09%) Analytics
11 810 (9.81%) ERP
12 752 (9.11%) Decision-Making
13 711 (8.61%) Project Management
14 699 (8.47%) Roadmaps
15 697 (8.44%) Validation
16 688 (8.33%) Data Modelling
17 631 (7.64%) User Acceptance Testing
18 608 (7.36%) Business Intelligence
19 604 (7.32%) Change Management
20 537 (6.50%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1,152 (13.95%) SQL
2 1,023 (12.39%) Python
3 559 (6.77%) Java
4 358 (4.34%) C#
5 243 (2.94%) TypeScript
6 238 (2.88%) JavaScript
7 197 (2.39%) PowerShell
8 80 (0.97%) Bash
9 75 (0.91%) C++
10 72 (0.87%) PL/SQL
11 69 (0.84%) Go
12 68 (0.82%) T-SQL
13 55 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 55 (0.67%) Shell Script
14 46 (0.56%) VBA
15 45 (0.55%) Scala
16 34 (0.41%) Bicep
17 31 (0.38%) Apex Code
18 29 (0.35%) Kotlin
18 29 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 667 (8.08%) Degree
2 644 (7.80%) Security Cleared
3 460 (5.57%) SC Cleared
4 209 (2.53%) PMP
5 203 (2.46%) ACCA
6 180 (2.18%) CIMA
6 180 (2.18%) PMI Certification
7 156 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 144 (1.74%) CISSP
9 126 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 91 (1.10%) DV Cleared
11 81 (0.98%) CISM
12 79 (0.96%) Azure Certification
13 78 (0.94%) Master's Degree
14 64 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
15 46 (0.56%) AWS Certification
15 46 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
16 38 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 38 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 30 (0.36%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 516 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 358 (4.34%) QA
3 307 (3.72%) PMO
4 288 (3.49%) GDPR
5 157 (1.90%) NIST
6 128 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 110 (1.33%) IFRS
8 99 (1.20%) SLA
9 88 (1.07%) GRC
10 82 (0.99%) Accessibility
10 82 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 61 (0.74%) GAAP
11 61 (0.74%) PCI DSS
12 54 (0.65%) ISO 20022
13 37 (0.45%) NCSC
14 35 (0.42%) SEPA
14 35 (0.42%) Solvency II
15 32 (0.39%) PSD2
16 28 (0.34%) IFRS 17
16 28 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 261 (3.16%) Docker
2 173 (2.10%) Active Directory
3 53 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.34%) vSphere
6 20 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.15%) RACF
10 11 (0.13%) NFS
11 10 (0.12%) Hyper-V
12 6 (0.073%) GPFS
12 6 (0.073%) KVM
13 5 (0.061%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.048%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.036%) GridGain
15 3 (0.036%) SRDF
16 2 (0.024%) ACF2
16 2 (0.024%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 2 (0.024%) IAG
Systems Management
1 374 (4.53%) Kubernetes
2 252 (3.05%) Terraform
3 136 (1.65%) Ansible
4 76 (0.92%) Grafana
5 66 (0.80%) Prometheus
6 61 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 50 (0.61%) SCCM
8 42 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
9 24 (0.29%) Control-M
10 18 (0.22%) FortiGate
10 18 (0.22%) vRealize
11 16 (0.19%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.17%) Nessus
13 13 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 12 (0.15%) AirWatch
14 12 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
15 11 (0.13%) Argo
15 11 (0.13%) CASB
15 11 (0.13%) Puppet
16 10 (0.12%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 1,065 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 676 (8.19%) Oracle
3 647 (7.84%) SAP
4 300 (3.63%) ServiceNow
5 261 (3.16%) Databricks
6 203 (2.46%) Salesforce
7 184 (2.23%) Google
8 125 (1.51%) Workday
9 112 (1.36%) VMware
10 107 (1.30%) Splunk
11 98 (1.19%) IBM
12 96 (1.16%) Cisco
13 91 (1.10%) CyberArk
14 61 (0.74%) OpenAI
15 60 (0.73%) Citrix
16 55 (0.67%) Bloomberg
17 54 (0.65%) Sage
18 48 (0.58%) Ariba
18 48 (0.58%) Informatica
18 48 (0.58%) Murex